Bread

n.

Heard in Dublin

Money, from rhyming slang "bread and honey" (hence also "dough").

I can't go out, I've no bread.

Posh English

I cannot possibly go out, as I am entirely without funds.

Related terms

• Curranty breadSoda bread containing currants.
• Spud breadPotato farls or potato bread.
• Bread vanA bus, particularly one used for transporting children to school.
• He knows what side his bread is buttered annHe knows who looks after him, or who not to upset.
• I could ait a horse between two bread vansTo be ravenously hungry.
• I'd eat a cow between two bread vans!An emphatic expression of extreme hunger.